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When siblings face different fertility journeys at the same time

My sister and I are both in our forties and she just had her first baby while I've been trying to conceive for three years, and we're both trying to navigate this space where she wants to share her joy and I want to be happy for her but the inequality of our situations is creating this careful distance that feels terrible.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The delicate work of maintaining sibling intimacy across vastly different reproductive experiences and their emotional weight.

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“Where Are You with Sibling identity dynamics?”

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